Fig. 1From: Double seismic zone within the ridge-shaped slab beneath southwest JapanIndex map of the study area. Seismic stations (solid squares) used in hypocenter locations and isodepth lines of the upper surface of the Philippine Sea slab at 5-km intervals (solid and broken curves; Miyoshi and Ishibashi, 2004) are shown. Bathymetric data (in meters) are those of the Japan Oceanographic Data Center (J-EGG500). PAC, PHS, NEJ, and SWJ indicate the Pacific plate, Philippine Sea plate, northeast Japan, and southwest Japan, respectively.Back to article page